Alfreton railway station serves the town of Alfreton in

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, England. The station is on the Erewash Valley Line north of

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and south of Chesterfield. Alfreton is a

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station when travelling on East Midlands Railway services.

History

Opened by the Midland Railway as Alfreton on 1 May 1862, the station was renamed Alfreton and South Normanton on 7 November 1891. It became part of the

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during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. The British Railways Board closed the station to passengers on 2 January 1967, due to the

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, and the buildings and platforms were subsequently demolished. When the station reopened on 7 May 1973, it was given the name Alfreton and Mansfield Parkway, as the nearby town of

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did not have a passenger service of its own, making it at the time one of the largest towns in Britain without such a service. Following the reopening of the Robin Hood Line in 1995,

station re-opened, so Alfreton station reverted to its original name. When Sectorisation was introduced in the 1980s, the station was served by the Intercity Sector and Provincial, which became Regional Railways until the Privatisation of British Railways.

Facilities

The station is staffed through the day, with the ticket office open 06:45 - 18:00 Mondays - Saturdays and 10:30 - 18:00 Sundays. A ticket machine is provided in the main building for use outside these times and for collecting pre-paid tickets. Toilets are located on platform 1, whilst platform 2 (southbound) has a waiting shelter only. Train running information is provided by digital CIS screens, automatic announcements, timetable posters and a customer help point on platform 1. Step-free access is only available for platform 1, as the barrow crossing at the station has been closed and the footbridge linking the platforms has stairs.

Services

There is generally an hourly East Midlands Railway Local service northbound to Liverpool Lime Street via

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and southbound to

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via

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run an hourly service between Nottingham and that stops at Alfreton. This service started from the December 2008 timetable change. From 2 April 2017, southbound services began to stop at the newly opened station at Ilkeston.

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Station on navigable O.S. map
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